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Life expectancy almost back to pre-COVID-19 levels, says WHO (opens in a new tab)
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-02
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Life expectancy almost back to pre-COVID-19 levels, says WHO
medicalxpress.com · 2026-10-02
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Claim 1 of 5Not checkedGlobal life expectancy is close to pre-COVID-19 levels, with life expectancy reaching 73.3 years in 2023 compared with 73.4 years in 2019.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 2 of 5Not checkedHealthy life expectancy recovered more slowly and stood at 62.8 years in 2023, which the WHO said was 0.4 years below the 2019 level.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 3 of 5Not checkedThe WHO said dementia deaths have tripled and anxiety- and depression-related health loss has risen sharply since the COVID-19 pandemic.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 4 of 5Not checkedThe WHO said noncommunicable diseases now account for 74% of global deaths, up from 58% in 2000, and ischemic heart disease is the world's biggest killer.View evidenceHide evidence
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Claim 5 of 5Not checkedCOVID-19 dropped out of the top 10 leading causes of death for the first time since the pandemic began, with directly attributable deaths falling to an estimated 900,000 in 2023.View evidenceHide evidence
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PubMed, Europe PMC, Crossref · 15 candidate papers
Global health trajectories: analysis of health production functions and inequality decomposition.
Frontiers in Public Health · 2026 · PubMed, Europe PMC
Global Trends in Life Expectancy and Healthy Life Expectancy
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health · 2023 · Crossref
Unequal healthy ageing trajectories across Europe: socioeconomic development and age-related disease burden in the European Union and South-Eastern European countries.
2026 · Europe PMC
The burden of disease in Italy, 1990-2023: a subnational analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2023.
Epidemiologia E Prevenzione · 2026 · PubMed
1.1. Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy at birth
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